NYU prof argues Gen Z is too 'fragile,' causing 'national crisis'
Members of Gen Z, according to Jonathan Haidt, are experiencing a profound mental health crisis due to a number of factors.
The crisis is largely due to a confluence of social media, bad parenting, and a political ideology that emphasizes victimhood.
Members of Gen Z (those born between 1997 and 2012), according to Haidt, are experiencing a profound mental health crisis because of these factors.
"When you look at Americans born after 1995, what you find is that they have extraordinarily high rates of anxiety, depression, self-harm, suicide and fragility," Haidt told the Wall Street Journal.
He points out that university students "are in the safest, most welcoming, most inclusive, most antiracist places on the planet, but many of them were acting like they were entering some sort of dystopian, threatening, immoral world."
Speaking more generally on the negative impact of social media, Haidt argues that “Social media is incompatible with liberal democracy because it has moved conversation, and interaction, into the center of the Colosseum. We’re not there to talk to each other. We’re there to perform."
